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This paper focuses on the importance of convincing those in funding positions to invest not only in infrastructure for general safety, but also to make improvements to protect against earthquakes. The report focuses on the challenges of convincing funders to prepare for events that may never occur during their lifetime, but have enormous potential for damage and loss of life. Although the paper was prepared by the California Department of Transportation and concerns only seismic earthquakes, the principles are applicable to any location that faces relatively uncommon but very large risks to their infrastructure and safety.

This report is a reference guide for analyzing the risks associated with bridge scour predictions. The areas studied included hydraulic, hydrologic, and uncertainties inherent in the models. Step-by-step procedure are listed for complex foundation systems and systems in channel conditions to assess scour factors. Tables of probabilities for various underlying conditions are included. The report is a technical report of interest primarily to engineers.

The guide focuses on how agencies can implement Transportation Asset Management (TAM). The short brochure defines TAM as “a strategic and systematic process of operating, maintaining, upgrading and expanding physical assets effectively throughout their lifecycle.” The brochure then discusses the benefits of TAM and enumerates the steps to implement TAM.

This guide is intended to assist environmental agencies better understand the Lean methods and the correct usage of each method. It focuses on Lean production, an organizational improvement philosophy that allows agencies to reduce waste in government processes.

Alaska DOT & PF seeks to develop their agency's asset management maturity in order to improve the life cycle management and performance of their resources. The TAMP addresses a desire to more effectively use rich collections of data, fill gaps in data and understanding of performance, and change organizational procedures and culture. This TAMP outlines a work plan for the timeframe of 2012-2014, composed of self-contained projects for the advancement of the agency's current practice.

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This tool provides a template and guidelines for a Lean Project Charter.

This LeanOhio toolkit includes detailed descriptions of common tools that yield significant improvements in an agency's workplace. The tools include Continuous Improvement, Lean, and Six Sigma methodologies.

This video serves as a Lean Tool and shows the IDEO Shopping Cart Project's DeepDive methodology in practice.

This tool provides guidance for the 6S method that is crucial to the Lean approach. It includes evaluations, checklists, and tips for successful implementation of the 6S method.

Objective: To identify key issues to be addressed ensure consistency and increase usefulness of the HPMS as a national source for pavement performance management.

Develop a framework for the self- assessment of data programs based on logical processes, success factors, and associated tools for assessing the suitability of transportation data for decision making on critical-issues. Completed; report available on NCHRP web site.